Feedebick engelken



(No Model.)

P. ENGBLKBN.

Bung and'Fauoet.

No. 233,740. Patented Oct. 26,1880.

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UNITED STATES ATENT EEICE.

FREDERICK ENGELKEN, OF BROOKLYN, CALIFORNIA.

BUNG AND FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,740, dated October 26, 1880.

Application tiled J une 9, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK ENGELKEN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Alameda and State ot California, have invented a new and useful Bung and Faucet Combined, of which the following is a specitication.

My invention consists in providing a hollow conical bung and its contained tap and screw-plug with suitable ports and apertures, as hereinafter more fully described.

An eduction-port is made in the side ot' the bung and a corresponding port is made in the tap, communicating with the upper part of the plug by vertical holes or openings. A screwplug having two ports is constructed so as to be-turned down in the bushing of the bung upon the tap, while a spigot and key hole'or tube is turned down upon the screw-plug, and both the screw-plug and tap are operated by the saine key.

rIhe object of my invention is to regulate and control the iow of effervescent liquors, such as beer and other sparkling liquors, and draw it in a thin stream or seepage from the cask, so that it may retain as nearly as possible all of its carbonio-acid gas.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a top view of the tap.

Fig. 4 is a bottom View of the screw-plug.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

I construct my bung A hollowT and of considerable length, the lower end being tapering or conical in form. A bushing, B, is formed on the outside, and a bushing, B,upon the inside thereof.

A conical plug, C, is constructed so as to lit closely the conical portion of the bung, and when in position is flush with the lower end, so that when the plug is moved upward or outward a little a thin stream or seepage of beer will be admitted through the conical opening between the two surfaces; but this means of drawing the liquid is employed mainly when the contents of the cask is new and full of gases.

For withdrawing beer when it becomes more flat, a port, D, is made in the side of the plug C, which communicates with a like port, C', through the side of the bung. Vertical holes a a connect with the port D of the plug, and through these ports and openings what is termed stale or flat77 beer is withdrawn from the cask when the ports are in communication with each other. By this means either fiat or lively liquor may be drawn through the same falfcet, the former by keeping the plug or tap in its conical bed ilush with the end of the bung and turning it so that the ports will communicate with each other, and the latter by slightly drawingforward the plug or tap and permitting only a thin streaml or seepage to escape between the conical surfaces of the tap and bung, from where it passes through the ports in the screwplug into the spigot-tube to the receivingvessel, and thus no sudden exposure of the beer is had tothe action of the air, the effect of which exposure is to deprive it of its component gases and produce a mass ot' foam, while by this method of drawing the carbonicacidgas and sparkle of the liquor are retained a much longer time.

The plug C is provided with a key-hole, E, and a flange, b, extends above the body thereof, upon which the vscrew-plug F rests when it is turned hard down in the interiorbushing of the bung.

The inner face of the screw-plugF is packed with leather, and is provided with two or more ports or valves, c c, extending to its outer side, and a square opening is made through -its center for the passage of the key G on its way to the plug or tap within, which key also serves to operate the screw-plug and turn it to its seat upon the flange of the plug and make the connection gas-tight, so that neither gas nor iuid will escape into the key-hole.

At the outer end of the bung is itted a piece in which is formed the key-tube and spigot.

The point end of the key is square to tit the square opening in the tap and screw-plug, while directly above this point an offset is made, which is cylindrical, as shown, so that the plug may be operated, when the key is in position, at will, and turn the plug-tap inde pendent of the screw-plug.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

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The combination, with the hollow bung A, have hereunto seb my hand and seal this 20th having port; C', of the conical plug C, proday of May, A. 111880. vided with port; D, apertures a ce, key-hole E,

4 1 i i T and flange b, and the screw-plug F, having FREDERICK ENGBLKEB' [L' S'] ports or valves o c, all constructed and ar- Witnesses: ranged as and for the purposes speeied. O. WV. M. SMITH,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I HOLLAND SMITH. 

